Dialectical materialism. Readers on Lenin. A unique guide to Marxism. Lenin V.I.

Before readers - a book containing the main philosophical work of V. I. Lenin. Unique materials are placed in this publication: an article by a revolutionary, historian and statesman V. I. Nevsky, first published as an annex to the publication “Materialism and empiriocriticism” of 1920, as well as an abstract of the entry of Academician A. M. Doborin to the publication 1925 years under the name "Lenin - a militant materialist." These articles were subsequently excluded from the publications of the book of V. I. Lenin and became practically inaccessible to the reader. In addition to these articles, the interesting material of the famous philosopher Yu. I. Semenov, dedicated to the work “Materialism and empiriocriticism”, was added to the publication. It will be extremely interesting for the reader to get acquainted with the text of A. A. Bogdanov “Faith and Science”, containing a response to the criticism of V. I. Lenin by A. A. Bogdanov, as well as a review of the book of L. I. Axelrod Lenin (Orthodox). The book also includes the preface to it from the publications of different years, including the extensive preface of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of 1961. The scientific and reference apparatus contains detailed notes, a pointer of work cited by V. I. Lenin, names and dates of work on the book, Moreover, almost all names and dates are equipped with explanations.

In his work, Lenin put comprehensive criticism of the reactionary idealistic philosophy and philosophical revisionism; comprehensively developed, in relation to new historical conditions, all the components of Marxism, including dialectical and historical materialism; revealed a complex, dialectical process of cognition; gave a philosophical generalization of new discoveries of natural science; He considered such philosophical problems of natural science as the question of the qualitative diversity of matter and forms of its movement, the principle of causality, the question of the objective reality of space and time as the main forms of existence of matter and others.

“Materialism and empiriocriticism” is a great work of Marxist philosophy, which is of great importance for mastering the dialectical-materialistic worldview.